While there are no tempo indications for ancient songs, it is often clear whether a metre should be sung fast or slow (until the invention of mechanical chronometers, tempo was in any case not ...

Ignoring the composer's own tempo indications, Pogorelich played the opening Adagio Cantabile at a snail's pace, and the songful Allegro that follows dragged along without much contour.

While there are no tempo indications for ancient songs, it is often clear whether a metre should be sung fast or slow (until the invention of mechanical chronometers, tempo was in any case not ...

Developed in 1815 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, the device made precise tempo indications possible by means of the number of beats per minute and a deflecting pointer.

Over the past 200 years, musicians have tended to ignore those tempo indications — particularly those for the Ninth Symphony. For 40 years, however, ...

Historically Informed Performance has thus far usually extended only to the score, instruments, and performance practices. The REsound project extends it to the venues and performs all of ...

Schick met the work’s challenge by finding five different ways to satisfy Ravel’s finely-graded tempo indications — from “moderate” to “very moderate” to “slow and serious ...